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✓ ✓^■wyELL, the Giants got all
** WV the best of it”
T w That expression, or
•ne very much like it, was handed
out by Frank “Whispering” Hogan
last Winter when he was informed
that he and Jimmy Welsh, an out
fielder, had been swapped by the
Boston Braves to the New York
Giants for Rogers Hornsby.
Despite the assurance given in
the statement issued by Hog#h the
deal was pretty much pooh-poohed
by many baseball critics and s<jme
of them even went so far as to re
fer to Hogan and Welsh as “aJ
couple of joke ball players.”
Hogan, a Huge fellow with a
foghorn voice and a personality
that endears him to the baseball
bugs, reported for the training
jaunt with Welsh and again reas
sured the public that Mr. McGraw
had shown nothing but excellent
judgment in the trade. The fans—
even the personal following of
the Giants—rather discounted the
remarks of the Whispering Back
stop and continued to mourn the
loss of Hornsby.
But Hogan nas developed into
• first string catcher for the
Giants, what with his performances
hack of the platter ami his ability
to swat the apple, and Welsh is
•ticking around the .300 hole m the
hit column, has a number of four
ply wallops to his credit and is
proving to be a ball hawk out in
the ola center garden. Who’s
looney now? Hogan and W’elsh
may be “joke ball players” but the
joke isn’t on John McOraw or the
New York Giants. Quite the con
trary.
Hogan wants his playtime hour
every afternoon. Personally he
can t see why McGraw wants an
other catcher. He is so keen on
romping around behind the plate
and getting his regular exercise
that he has almost shoved Bob
O’Farrell into a secondary position
and those who know their base
ball realize that Bob is still a pret
ty fair backstop. Only a couple
of years ago he was considered ono i
oi the best receivers in the league.
Maybe he is just as good as he
used to be but Hogan isn’t giving
him much chance to pro e it
The youthful whisperer is proba
bly the best hitting young catcher
the Giants have grabbed in a
decade and the fact that he feels
he should make up to the fans for
the loss of Hornsby—having fig
ured in the trade—is helping him
to fill his job with distinction.
Jimmy Welsh, who was playful
ly referred to Oy some of the wise
ones as “a dime-a-dozen outfield
er,” didn’t feel, personally, that he
was a bust. The derogatory re-1
marks made about Jimmy prior to 1
the season’s opening hardly could
be classed as ego-builders but,
starting from nowhere, Jimmy has
caught up with the pack and is
making good for McGraw in no
uncertain terms.
Welsh got his great chance when
Eddie Roush pulled update in May
t with an injury or without an in
jury. There still seems to be some
room for debate on that subject
but it doesn’t matter here. Jimmy
edged into the berth left vacant
by Roush and it's going to take
more than a gentle breeze to waft
Welsh 'v» of the center garden
now. More likely a stick of’dyna
mite. It’s difficult for a manager
to ignore a young man who socks
the horsehide around .300 and
catches hard hit balls like a vet
eran.
So much for Hogan and Welsh.
The Giant? n ’t cn a winning spurt
not so long ago and they may yet j
come homorflrst in that tight'little .!
gallop which is being staged in the
older circuit. Hogan and Welsh
were doing their bit toward that
spurt and still are going strong.
The Boston Bravs. meanwhile,
may be well satisfied with the trade
but McGraw will always be inter
ested in “a coup!° of joke players”
like Hogan and Welsh.
Meanwhile. Whispering Honan
may have J- > vn what he was talk
ing about ' : n he made that state
ment last Winter,
LESSONS OUT OF
DISASTER HERE
Rooky Mt. Telegram.
A coroner’s Jury, or rather a
Jury summoned by a special in
vestigator representing the coron
er, as that official lost a daughter
In the crash, has returned a ver
dict attributing last Peek's disas
trous collapse o! three buildings
at Shelby, where six persons were
killed and a dozen injured, to an
inadequate building code which was
in effect when the buildings were
constructed.
That verdict, however, does not
place the direct responsibility for
the tragedy but accentuates rather
than lessens the reason why special
precautions should have been taken
while the excavating operations
which led to the crash were under
way.
Shelby dispatches indicate, how
ever, that the next move will be
up to the grand jury, and it will
be interesting to note what action
the solicitor proposes. Of course
any action now is like closing the
stable door after the horse- has
been stolen, for nothing can re
store mangled bodies to life and
inject happiness into the niche
previously filled by those who met
their deaths in the catastrophe.
Out of the wreck, however re
main two striking lessons which
should be driven home to every
city and town and which, if they
have the effects that they should
will safeguard against a recurrence
of any such calamity.
The first of these is the adop
tion of a stringent building code
by every municipality which does
not at present have one. Those
cities and towns which have codes
should pursue them and see if
they are strict and sweeping
enough to prevent such disasters
as Shelby is now mourning. In
the event their provisions seem
lax and not sufficiently binding
to afford every protection to life
i
t
and material possessions, they
should be tightened at cnce before
it is too late, as proved the case
at the Cleveland county capital.
The second lesson is in reality
but an extension of the first. A
strict building code will amount to
little unless its provisions are
enforced with equal vigor and
strictness. Municipal authorities
should determine the capability
and thoroughness of their build
ing inspectors, see that regular
and minute inspections are made
and that where faults, violations
or defects are found those respon
sible for buildings rectify them
at once regardless of cost. A few
thousands dollars cannot be plac
ed above human life and the hap
piness of a community and every
family which it claims as citizens.
The public must be protected.
So in the wake of the Shelby
disaster, while its horror and Hr
awfulness are fresh in the public
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mind, every city and town should
examine its building code, be cer
tain that this code is sufficiently
stringent and then satisfy itself
that its enforcement is in capable
hands and conducted with vigor,
severity and determination
A disaster similar to that which
snuffed out half a dozen lives in
Shelby must not happen in North
Carolina again.
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TERRIBLY ILL
Kentucky Lady’s Health Was
Very Bad. Had Severe
Pams and Could
Not Sleep.
Lexington, Ky.—Mrs. J. H. Nichols,
vho lives at 513 Elm Tree 7 ar.e,
his city, says that Cardui has been
>f valuable assistance to hey on two
sessions, which she teUs about be
ow:
“Come few years ago, tny health
vas bad. I had very severe pains
n my sides. My nerves were in a
erribie condition. I could not rest.
“The lower part of my body was
rcry sore. I could hardly stoop over
o lace my shoes. I would have to
rat my loot on a chair. I did
lot feel like eating. and did not
ileep well at all at nights.
“A friend of mine recommended
Cardui. I began taking it and saw
luite an improvement In my con
htion. I kept It up until I felt
itrong and well.”
About a year ago, Mrs. Nichols
lays, she found herself la a ner
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iardui again," she adds, “and It
lelped me wonderfully. It is a
iplendid tonic.”
Thousands of women have' writ
en to tell how Cardui helped them
o get rid of pain and suffering.
Cardui is a mild, medicinal tonic,
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News & Observer.
Those dry voters who are think
ing of voting for Hoover because;
they disapprove Smith's advocacy of
amending the eighteenth amend
ment ought to subscribe to ’he
New York Herald-Tribune Tie
leading Hoover organ. It constant
ly advocates modifying or repealing,
prohibition and denies that Hoover
favors prohibition or is opposed to
modification Not only so. but ,t
gives prominence to like statements
by other Hoover advocates. In its
issue of Friday it prints interviews
with Judge Davies and Mr Hahn.
Republican member of the board of
elections They said: "We are very,
very sad at the position Nicholas
Murray Butler has taken—(Butler
Republican high brow leader ap
proved Smith’s policy though h >
will vote for Hoover)—and at what
he has done/' The Herald-Tribune
adds:
' Both men admitted they were
not drys. but believed that any ]
modification of the prohibition law '
was more likely to coins under a
Hoover administration than under
Smith rule. Judge Davies explain
ed that Governor Smith, being so
ardent a wet. is liable to .antagonize
the element which might be per
suaded to modification and with
which Mr, Hooter is on friendly
terms.
"Do you mean that you behove
Mr. Hoover is :n favor of modified- ;
ticri?" Judge Davies was asked
"No. I don't mean that,” he re- !
plied, “sav rather ‘correction,."
Judge Davies volunteered to cam
paign for Hoover and Curtis, and
he was enlisted by the Republican
speakers’ bureau."
This spell-binder will go out to
persuade the voters in New York
to vote for Hoover because he may
promise that “modification of pro
hibition is more likely to come un
der a Hoover administration than
under Smith rule."
In North Carolina Republican
spell-binders are telling the voters ■,
that Smith will destroy prehibr ion ;
root and branch while Hoover will ;
be its savior.
These Republican spell-binders |
proceed on the theory that voters f
are easy to fool, or love to be fool
ed. The truth is. as every- well in
formed man and woman knows,
neither Smith nor Hoover nor both
together could secure the submis
sion of any amendment to the Con- !
stitution affecting the eighteenth !
amendment or secure the legal
manufacture or sale of intoxicants. 1
The only thing either could do I
would be to enforce the law as it :
is now—something the adirsinistra- ;
tion of which Hoover is a big part
has flagrantly failed to do. i
DR. H. D. WILSON
Optometrist.
Eyes Glasses
Examined Fitted
Dependable Eye Exumina- |
tion and Quality Glasses.
Office Over Paul Webb’s. !
- Announcement -
T wish to announce to my
friends, customers and the
public that I am living with
my father-in-law, M. T.
Willis, Belwoocl, N. C.. R.
No. 1, and some say they
wanted me to do some
Painting or Papering for
them but could not locate
me. Now I had to move
here as my father-in-law
wanted my wife with them
as they are very feeble and
■ my business is the same in
Shelby as it was before
moving, as I am in Shelby
every day with my help as
always. If you desire to
see me about Painting or
Papering or anything in the
painting line just phone or
address me as beiow. I keep
only the very best of help
and with my 27 years of
experience am able to give
you the best-work at a lit
tle more than amateur pric
es.
Here is how- it’s done—•
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PAINTER
PAPERHANGER
PHONE 21. —_ BOX 485
SHELBY, N C.
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St Louis—In a smatl automobile,
bought and paid for on the Install
ment plan, Gregory Dowling. 25.
and his bride of little more than a
year ate driving in easy stages
across the country from Hollywood,
Calif to St Louis where there
awaits a pot of gold at the end of
the rainbow.
Whan they arrive at St. Louis the
young husband will walk into the
Page bank at 6135 Page boulevard
and take charge as president.
With him by that time probably
will be John J. Dowling, graying St.
Louis financier and president of the
Savings Trust company, St. Louis,
who worked his way upward
through life from a job as a grocery
clerk. The elder Dowling is handing
to his son on a silver platter a thing
that he worked so hard to achieve.
Gregory Dowling was working Li
a Hollywood motion picture studio
the other day when his father wir
eci
Have bought another bank Will j
you accept the presidency? Letter ]
follows.'’
The letter came and Gregory quit'
his job in the movie studio and ac- i
eepted the bank presidency. ]
Life has presented numerous
quick and unexpected turns for
young Dowling. Leaving school four
years ago. he decided to go to Cali
fornia and departed on 24 hours’j
I notice. Through a want ad he found
I a $35-a-week job in a movie studio.
| Within a few months lie was pro
| moted and his salary was doubled.
' Soon he came to know Dick Ear
thlemess. Colleen Moore and other
stars.
Equally as unexpected was his
marriage to pretty Carol Murray,
who had moved to California from
Kansas City. They met on a picnic
one Sunday and a few weeks later
—on July 4. 1927—they were wed.
Although they had only $11.50 be
tween them after the marriage
young Dowling refused to accept
financial aid from his banker fath
er, In his letters, the son said he
could work and make his own way
in the world.
Then came the telegram offering
him the bank presidency.
Would he accept? Who wouldn't.
Gregory phoned Carol and broke
the news as gently as possible.
Carol choked up. She couldn't
talk.
And so they sold their furniture,
bade farewell to their California
friends and started for St. Louis in
the installment auto. In St, Louis,
too. a whole apartment house await
ed them—an apartment house deed
ed to them by John J. Dowling.
QUEEN CITY COACH LINES
FOR ASHEVILLE, CHARLOTTE, WILMINGTON,
FAYETTEVILLE
FOR ASHEVILLE AND INTERMEDIATE
POINTS
LEAVE SHELBY9:40 a. m.; 11:40 a. m.; f:40 p.
mO 3:40 p. m.; 5:40 p. m.; 7:40 p. m.
FOR CHARLOTTE AND INTERMEDIATE
POINTS
LEAVE SHELBY:—10:50 a. m.; 12:50 p. m.; 2:50
p. m.; 4:50 p. m. : 6:50 p. m.; 8 :50 p. m.
FOR WILMINGTON AND INTERMEDIATE
POINTS
LEAVE SHELBY:—10:50 a m.; 2:50 p. m.
FOR FAYETTEVILLE AND INTERMEDIATE . _
POINTS
LEAVE SHELBY:—7:50 a. m.; 10:50 a. m.; 2:50
p. m.
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QUEEN CITY COACH COMPANY
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Who Want The Best In Plumb
ing. That Is Why They Call Us.
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PHONE 561.
SHELBY, N. C.
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At 6 P. C. Interest
Semiannual partial repayment of Principal with interest.
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Loans made promptly on improved farm lands for:
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I Below is listed the attorneys who are our local representa
tives—see any of them if you need funds
B. T. FALLS, Shelby, N. C.
BENNETT & EDWARDS, Shelby, N C.
BYNUM S. WEATHERS, Shelby, N. C.
J. R. DAVIS, Kings Mountain, N. C.
Atlantic Joint Stock Land Bank
Of Raleigh
RALEIGH, N. C.
SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION
North Carolina,
Cleveland County,
In The Superior Court.
D. T. Ruppe. Plantiff, vs. Mary
Lee Ruppe, Defendant.
The above named defendant will
take notice that an action entitled
as above has been commenced in the
Superior court of Cleveland county,
to secure divorce absolute on the
grounds ot five years separation; the
defendant will further take notice
that she is required to appear at
the office of the undersigned clerk
of the Superior court on or before
October 5. 1928, and answer or de
mur to the complaint in said action,
or the plaintiff will apply to the
court for the relief demanded in
said complaint.
This the 5th day of September
1928.
A. M HAMRICK,
Clerk Superior Court.
B. E. Williams.
Atty. for plaintiff.
NOTICE
Cleveland County hereby give;
notice that, at 10 o’clock a. m. on
September 10th, at the courthouse
in Shelby, N. c., it will sell *25,
000.00 revenue anticipation notes a
public or private sale.
A. E. CUNE, Chairman,
Board County Commislsoner of
Cleveland County, N. C.
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• MEMORIALS-IN •
EDDLEMAN
GEORGIA-MARBLE
We are prepared to furnish to the people of our
section monuments of any size and of proper design to
meet their requirements. We are in position to ren
der the best of service in point of workmanship and
quality of materials, as well as the careful erection of
the monument in the cemetery.
S. A. ELLIS, Proprietor. DELMUS ROBERTS, Mgr.
Cleveland Marble &
Granite Works
WEST WARREN STREET.
HOME OF BETTER MEMORIALS. WHEN BETTER
, MEMORIALS ARE BUILT WE WILL BUILD THEM.
POLICY
SERVING OUR Depositors so well,
pleasing them in every way has been
the conduct of this bank.
IT MAKES A careful study of the
needs of each customer, so it is able to
fit into his requirements.
IN SATISFYING our clients so well
they are always pleased to recommend
their friends to this institution so that
they too can join forces with us and en
joy the many advantages of satisfac
tory banking.
First National
Bank
SHELBY, N. C.
RESOURCES OVER FOUR AND A
HALM MILLION DOLLARS.